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... I ... the teachers unions in this country were tossed Mary Anastasia O'Grady are America's columnist even what's what's happening in Mexico where a new president Enrique Pena Nieto tone has been the ... perhaps I'm making some progress in the in a pretty tough fight with the teachers unions while this week actually the last couple weeks have been on very contentious because aam ... the teachers union took their fight to the streets of Mexico City ... and as I say my column ... Mexico City on a good day ... I often look like a giant parking lot and I ... you can imagine with thousands of teachers protesting they took over the aam ... means city historic square ... but they've blocks unimportant their affairs and a block access to the international airport ... and missed the city of twenty million people it's the largest Spanish speaking city in the world ... ALM so it has not got the attention of a ... non Test Out Mexicans but the people of the world ... and the attention of Mexicans specifically sounds only care about translating into a lot of sympathy for these the striking teachers ... that don't forget that on when the president and union took office in December ... he had a run-up platform then he said he was gonna modernized Mexico and I think growing faster ... I'm keeping the integration with North America ... and all that requires a more serious handling of the public education system ... of public education has been for ... decades really more of a political post ... I mean is that professional post and the teachers get things like automatic ten year when they graduate from ... college ... and on very I almost nonexistent ... performance evaluations ... so when he did was in springtime the first half of the year he passed amendments to the Constitution ... that would allow him ... to pass laws ... aam which would make them more accountable and those lives actually were passing Congress last week ... and I he spoke from St Peter's for saying that he would sign into law ... so the teachers are very upset about this because of their mission their view is that you know how dare you ... judge my performance ... the teachers profession is sacred and and no one's allowed to ... do that and and of course that's a big break with the past but is very important for the future Maxthon was a concert or refreshing ... you ... talk about how well you're seeing a ... in the contrast of the so the teacher demonstrations also some parents uneven there since the UN kids getting out there and say hey we wanna go to class now and we wanna learn stuff ... does this mean that ... that the thing in yet so does is winning our little too early to say that why think the most promising thing here is that he he does seem to be the winner any as I said that teachers profession was considered the most sacred for so many years but ... I think the parents are more and more understanding essential announ pen in education are really not can have a shot at middle class life in Mexico ... and out of one on a noticeable development ... last week ... was way and that parents in the southern city of La kakak which is very much controlled by the left and by the teachers union ... I've decided that they went on break the picket line send their children to school of the chili in a bid the chill in the pants actually March and the street saying look we demand the right to a school ... of the teachers responded by saying we're going to close the schools were going to shut them down ... and outs of this is an ongoing fight but I think it does suggest ... that there's life within civil society in Mexico and it also suggests I think a break with the very corporatist ... up close to model ... that existed for so long and of course that started the break with that started with a nice American free Trade agreement ... in nineteen ninety four ... and this is just a further development of that Max was a long way to go the way to go but ... we have to say this mean for a relatively new president often a fairly good start indeed view look at this you look at the opening up the oil market somewhat ... earning getting more optimistic about the sky while in on what I'm a little bit afraid of this I don't wanna get too far out front because I am optimistic in the sense that you know these amendments and than the amendments to the oil sector ... are very important than necessary ... but there is as we know the difference between necessary and sufficient and ... I think they are necessary but really ... Mexico needs two LeapFrog had ... in education and start moving to you know the kind of online learning the stuff that we're talking about here in the US that ... I'm in order to really make that children and the students more competitive globally so there's a long way to go but yet to start somewhere and I think this is a very good beginning firms good things for sure ...